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C. BERZDORP. 00m CONTROLLED TICKET STAMPING AND SUPPLYING'APPARATUS.

,No. 558,471. Patented Apr. 21, 1896.

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. O. BERZDORF. 00m CONTROLLED TICKET STAMPING AND SUPPLYING APPARATUS.

No. 558,471. A Patented Apr. 21,1896.

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CARL BERZDORF,

OF COLOGNE, GERMANY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 558,471, dated April 21, 1896.

Application filed October 26, 1895. Serial No. 567,048.

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in the Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Controlled and Supplying Apparatus, lowing is a specification.

Figure 1 is a vertical. and Fig. 2 a horizontal section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The subject of this invention is an apparatus which, by the insertion of a specific coin without any further manipulation, is caused automatically to provide and deliver a railway traveling-ticket marked with the date or other mode of authentication.

The construction and operation of the apparatus are hereinafter clearly shown and described.

The cards or tickets are arranged to lie one over the other in the box a, Fig. 1, while the lowest rests on the line or track I), Fig. 2, of the slide 0, and the antecedent card is already located above the type-stamp w. If now a specific coin be put in the slot d of the apparatus, it will fall through the funnel c, Fig. 1, into the shovel or scoop f, which rests on one of the arms of the two-armed lever g, which in the normal state carries on its other arm the adjustable counterpoise h,whichbalances the scoop f. As soon, therefore, as the coin Ticket Stamping of which the folfalls into the scoop f the latter overbalances the counterpoise h and sinks, whereupon the coin drops into the funnel N, (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and in full lines in Fig. 2,) and passes thence into a collecting-box. By the movement of the loaded scoop f the spurpinion h, mounted on the pivot-pin of the lever g, causes the depression of the toothed sector a, with which it is engaged, whereby the vertical rod 7c, secured to the above-named sector i, Fig. 1, presses upon one arm of the stop-lever m, pivoting on the pin 1, so that thereof is raised, whereby the ratchet-wheel n is released by the stop 0, Fig. 1, and the flier or vane 19 by the stop 19, whereby the stop movement of the clockwork I is set free. Consequently the motorspring q of the latter is set in action, and the l2ttOll8l3-Wl166lll,1$ caused to rotate. As soon as one of the steps or notches of the cam-disk comes into coincidence with a projection on the lever t, the latter, actuated by the spring it, drops downward, presses upon the lever 12, Fig. 2, which presses the type-stamp w against the card lying over it and makes the desired impression upon the latter. After this impression is completed the other cam-disk w, likewise mounted on the same spindle n of the ratchet-wheel, presses upon the lever z, pivoted on the pin y, and by the aid of the rod A and lever B lifts the rod 0, and there; with the stop-lever D, secured thereto, so as to release the ratchet-wheel E from the projecting stop F, Fig. 1, on the lever D, so that the stop-motion, consisting of the worm G and pin-disk H, is released by the raising of the cross-piece J of the rod 0. Thereupon the motor-spring K-t'. e. the clockwork I-is set in action, the cam or wiper wheel L is caused to rotate and pushes ward by the aid of the slide-bar M, laterally projecting from the slide a, to which it is secured. The slide 0 pushes out the undermost card of the card-column a lying in front of it and over the type-stamp w, while the card just stamped is simultaneously pushed out of the slide-track and drops into the deliveryreceptacle Q, which projects outside the box or case of the apparatus and can be removed therefrom.

Falling weights can be substituted as 1110- tors for the winding-springs q and K.

Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is-- In a coin-controlled ticket stamping and supplying apparatus the combination with a clockwork, a balanced scoop-lever combined with an escapement mechanism adapted to cause the disengagement of the said clockwork, a type-stamp, means for raising and depressing the same, a lever combination and a cam-disk arranged to disengage another clockwork, a wiper-disk and a slide, pushing the tickets over the aforesaid type-stamp and thence out off the apparatus.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CARL BERZDORF.

lVitnesses:

GEORGE COHEN, WILLIAM H. MADDEN. 

